[gridlock]

...(I)f I recall right, the reason he gave for getting his citizenship was so that he can vote against Bush in the last election.

The real reason, no doubt, was to avoid the confiscatory tax rates in the UK.

[Anglophilestine]

He didn't live in the UK - Eire hasn't been British since 1922. Undoubtedly he left Eire to avoid their high socialist taxes - many move to the UK which has the lowest taxes in the EU, but he didn't and has never been a UK citizen.